![]() ![]() While I may not have been able to relate to the kaleidoscope reality within the book personally, as I read, I was living those experiences alongside the character and I bought it hook line and sinker. What it paints on his consciousness is just as “real” as his normal, everyday reality, it’s just been filtered through booze and drugs and adrenalin. It’s taking in those dulled sensory clues and attempting to sort them with altered, perverted logic. His poor, drug-soaked brain is still trying to do its job. What FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS does remarkably well is to show that, while reality is skewed and by whatever intoxicant of the moment happens to be coursing through Raoul Duke’s veins, it’s still portrayed as his reality. That’s sketchy on a good day, but add a few chemicals to the mix and… We use various fleshy bits to sense and send evidence of an external reality to our brain, only for it to choose what all that input might mean and paint its best guess on our consciousness. The nature of reality can be a tricky business. Thompson’s incredible work of gonzo journalism that truly bonded it to my writing DNA. ![]() That love was deep and immediate and while I may have seen the film umpteen times before I read the book, it was the reading of Hunter S. ![]() I was on a page somewhere just after Barstow when my love for FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS took hold. The Books That Made Us – Fear and Loathing and Valid Realities ![]()
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